From the voiceover: "Sunshine lies peacefully on the walls of Collinwood..."
Nice.
"...but inside, dark terror stalks Paul Stoddard."
I've seen the stalking dark terror, and its name is
Donna McKechnie's lashes!I could be wrong, but judging by how uncomfortable she looked puffing on a cigarette, I'm guessing that Donna was not a smoker.
I think Olivia's lounging pjs (?) are ugly, her fur coat doesn't do a thing for me, and I don't like her poofy hair. Okay, done now.
It was sweet of GH to seamlessly prompt Don B when he forgot his line.
Julia: "Will you put yourself in my hands for as long as is necessary, and stay in Collinsport?"
Grant: "Sure, why not? As long as the drinks are on the house."
If that didn't sound like Quentin, I don't know what would.
Carolyn-at-8 was played by the uncredited Lisa Ross.
Did the red flowers in the urn on Grant's bedside table arrive via I-Ching from 1897?
It's nice to get a peek at places we've never seen before. In this ep, we see 2 doors on the unseen wall of the Collinwood foyer. To get there, Paul and Julia walked past the grandfather clock (and you can see the side of clock when looking out into the foyer from inside one of the rooms [along with a camera and a pile of cable wires, but I digress]). However, the placement of a corner to the left of those doors makes no sense, Paul pointed in the wrong direction toward the drawing room, and Julia would've had to zigzag to reach Paul the way she did. And I really need to stop obsessing over props and sets.
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It seemed to me that the girl's eyes were brown, but the camera can do strange things. We know that Nancy Barrett's eyes are blue, and I think probably Alexander's eyes are supposed to be blue, but I'm not sure of that.
I think you can tell from MB's pics of them in the Robservations for this ep that Alex's eyes are blue and young Carolyn's are brown.
I've always assumed that Barnabas deliberately caused Quentin's amnesia in the hospital room, an assumption so automatic on my part that it never occurred to me that there could be any other cause. I hate the idea that the amnesia could have come from the accident, because that would make it a really tired plotpusher. But it wouldn't be the first plotpusher ever seen in Dark Shadows.
Hmm, I bet a case could be made for either scenario. If Julia hadn't accused Barnabas of wiping his memory, I probably would have gone completely with the tired plotpusher explanation, but now I'm just not sure.
When Quentin was under hypnosis, he mentioned some male who had threatened him. I figured that was a vague memory of Barnabas threatening him in the hotel room, but it could also have been a vague memory of Barnabas's cold, cruel face as Barnabas ran him down.
IF his amnesia was caused by the trauma, I'm thinking that it was more likely a memory of Barnabas' murderous intent in the hospital since it happened after the accident. In other words, he would have forgotten everything up to and including the accident, but I'm just guessin'.
And Ms. Corey wins the Give Quentin Free Room and Board Sweepstakes! Julia can't compete as a sugar mama, aw.
Hah!
